[ad_1] Thoreau’s iconic memoir about life in the outdoors, Walden, exaggerates his solitude. His mother visited him regularly at his cabin, which was only a 20-minute walk from his family home in Concord. Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience” inspired Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. Henry David Thoreau has iconic status among introverts, conservationists, and […]